MASSIVE: The Future of Networked Multiplayer Games

Calit2 Building, University of California, Irvine

April 20, 2006

Program

8:30-9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:15-9:30am Opening Remarks

Walt Scacchi, Institute for Software Research, UC Irvine, Opening Remarks (presentation ppt 499 K)
UC Office of the President/Discovery Grants
Conference Organizers

9:30-10:00am Keynote

10:00-11:00am Strategic Design: The Art of Social Sculpting

Tracy Fullerton, USC School of Cinema-Television, Interactive Media Division (presentation ppt 3.727 M)
Jacki Morie, USC Institute for Creative Technologies (presentation Apple dv very large 568.200 M )
Celia Pearce, Institute for Software Research/Game Culture & Technology Lab, UC Irvine (presentation ppt 6.886 M)
Ron Meiners, Community Management Consultant, Oakland, CA
Robin Harper, Linden Lab

11:00-11:15am Coffee Break

Calit2 Atrium/Plaza

11:15-12:15pm Networked Play Cultures/Audience Perspectives

Betsy Book, Makena Technologies, (moderator)
Clarinda Merripen, Cryptic Studios
Tom Boellstorff, Dept. of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Bonnie Nardi, Dept. of Informatics/Institute for Software Research, UC Irvine (presentation ppt 936 K)
Robert J. Moore, Play On Group, Palo Alto Research Center (presentation pdf 631 K)

12:15-1:15pm Box Lunch

Calit2 Atrium/Plaza

1:15-2:15pm Out of the Box: Heterogeneous Networks

Robert Nideffer, Game Culture & Technology Lab/Institute for Software Research, UC Irvine
Bill Tomlinson, Informatics/Drama, UC Irvine (presentation ppt 9.446 M)
Julian Bleecker, USC School of Cinema-Television, Interactive Media Division (presentation pdf 2.786 M)
Antoinette LaFarge, Studio Art, UC Irvine

2:15-3:15pm New Production Models and Infrastructures

Walt Scacchi, Institute for Software Research, UC Irvine (presentation pdf 4.720 M)
Steve Cutchin, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD (presentation ppt 3.648 M)
Corey Bridges, Executive Producer, Multiverse
Michael Steele, Emergent Game Technologies (presentation ppt 8.054 M)

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-4:30pm Industry/Academia Collaboration

Walt Scacchi & Robert Nideffer, Game Culture & Technology Lab, UC Irvine (presentation pdf 3.674 M)
Jen Sun, Whyville.net & Yasmin Kafai, Dept. of Education, UCLA (presentation ppt 1.331M)
William Fisher, President, Quicksilver Software, Inc.
Sheldon Brown, CRCA/Calit2, UCSD (presentation ppt 21.482 M)

4:30-5:30 Wrap-Up Discussion-All Panelists

5:30-7:30 Reception with Open Demos & Show-and-Tell

Made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Calit2 Atrium, Second and Third Floor Labs

Calit2 Atrium:

Calit2 Auditorium:

Vis Lab/2nd floor:

Game Lab/Calit2 3100:

Student Game Demos:

Eterative Tale - A role-playing game about a girl who vies to become a scholar while a queen battles an alliance that is out to quash her.
Team - Students (all from UCI): Tam Dang "Tammy'' Phan, Lu Qian "Lucy" Zheng , Ray Ray Shen, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Kim
Awarded 2nd Place in "Games 4 Girls" competition: news release
contact: Tammy Phan: tamdangp () uci.edu
The Alchemist - Jason Kimball: jkimball () es.nacs.uci.edu
MobZombies - Aaron Meyers (USC): admeyers () usc.edu
Guitar Hero Hack - Travis Chen: tachen () uci.edu
Blonk! - Nathan Barger: nbarger () uci.edu
Aimless - Ting Chow chowt () uci.edu
Exchanging Culture - Jorge Mora Fernandez (USC): morafern () usc.edu

Recruitment Tables:

Student Game Demo Showcase - Room 2006 - Call for Proposals